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Ebenezer, Ohio

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45321. The Survey maps it on the Eaton North quadrangle.

Ebenezer within Preble County

Then and now

1953 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ebenezer, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Ebenezer, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the 1915 county history

2,642 words on this township

The county history of 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Monroe Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Monroe Township - 2,642 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 808 shown

Museums hold 808 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ebenezer between 1876 and 1974: 788 Animalia, 12 Fungi, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin, B. Fink and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Hedwigia ciliata, not of this specimenHedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1876not recordedNew Paris
A photograph of the species Uria lomvia, not of this specimenUria lomvia lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758)1896Stewart, R. T. (Robert T.)Israel Twp, Fairhaven, Preble, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Septoria oenotherae, not of this specimenSeptoria oenotherae Westend.1901W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1910Braun, Lucy E.
A photograph of the species Physcia subtilis, not of this specimenPhyscia subtilis Degelius1914B. FinkEaton
A photograph of the species Scoliciosporum umbrinum, not of this specimenScoliciosporum umbrinum (Ach.) Arnold1914Fink, B.Eaton
A photograph of the species Steccherinum pulcherrimum, not of this specimenSteccherinum pulcherrimum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Banker1925M.L. LohmanEaton
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1928Mendenhall E. W.New Paris
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstBantas Fork, trib of Twin Creek, South western Twin Twnp; Trib of Miami River
A photograph of the species Luxilus chrysocephalus, not of this specimenLuxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstBantas Fork, trib of Twin Creek, South western Twin Twnp; Trib of Miami River
A photograph of the species Macrochilo absorptalis, not of this specimenMacrochilo absorptalis Walker, 18591929Klots, A.B.Lewisburg
A photograph of the species Notropis stramineus, not of this specimenNotropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)1929MB Trautman & asstBantas Fork, trib of Twin Creek, South western Twin Twnp; Trib of Miami River

All 808 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gettysburg1.3 miles8
Orangeburg (historical)2.7 miles8
Hamburg3.3 miles9
New Hope3.6 miles8
Brinley4.3 miles9
Eldorado4.3 miles9
Belfast (historical)4.3 miles12
Campbellstown5.0 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on EbenezerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22034003The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062466. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.